This creature is an extremely rare caecilian called Atretochoana discovered recently in Brazil. It is known from only two preserved specimens. Caecilians are limbless wormlike amphibians with poorly developed eyes. Apart from the lack of eyeballs Atretochoana also has no lungs and breathes through skin.

This little creature, known as Issus has it's own functioning mechanical gears.

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A plant-hopping insect found in gardens across Europe - has hind-leg joints with curved cog-like strips of opposing 'teeth' that inter-mesh, rotating like mechanical gears to synchronize the animal's legs when it launches into a jump.

The finding demonstrates that gear mechanisms previously thought to be solely man-made have an evolutionary precedent. Scientists say this is the "first observation of mechanical gearing in a biological structure."

Now Snopes says the Venezuelan Poodle Moth is a real suspected new species (as in they are not 100% sure if is new to the species catalogue or not yet). The Snopes article does have a picture of that moth at the end of their article that I can't link.

They are both very light coloured very hairy moths. Though the Poodle Moth seems to have fluffier legs, and their antennae are shape differently, with their hairs going in different directions too.

Edited by sierraleone, 24 November 2018 - 07:04 PM.

Rules for surviving an Autocracy:

Rule#1: Believe the Autocrat.
Rule#2: Do not be taken in by small signs of normality.
Rule#3: Institutions will not save you.
Rule#4: Be outraged.
Rule#5: Don't make compromises.
Rule#6: Remember the future.
- Masha Gessen
Source: http://www2.nybooks....r-survival.html

*laughs* Very adorable Looks like it must have just came out of the cocoon with those curled wings.

Though they have that video mislabeled. The antennae give it away, it looks like a (China) silkworm moth, not a Venezuelan Poodle Moth.

Rules for surviving an Autocracy:

Rule#1: Believe the Autocrat.
Rule#2: Do not be taken in by small signs of normality.
Rule#3: Institutions will not save you.
Rule#4: Be outraged.
Rule#5: Don't make compromises.
Rule#6: Remember the future.
- Masha Gessen
Source: http://www2.nybooks....r-survival.html